the last thing i want to see is cuts in defense, anything at all that negatively affects the defense of this country, anything at all that negatively affects the lives of servicemen and servicewoman, those are bad things. i'm happy to write a check for more money. i don't like it. but i'm getting old anyway. i would rather give it to the government than leave it to -- than leave it to government, give it to them right now. >> you'll write the check, maybe semipainfully, but i'll write it nonetheless. >> i'll do it. >> europe's biggest bank, you heard about this, hsbc agreed to pony up close to $2 billion to settle accusations of money laundering. the senate banking committee they found that hsbc in mexico shipped $7 billion in cash, mind you, across the border, maybe turned a blind eye to where the money came from, want you to listen to neil barofsky, we had him on the show yesterday, and i asked him whether top bank officials knew they were handling drug money there. >> the notion that this wasn't something that was known on senior levels of the banks, at least they had plenty of re